24th Lambda Literary Awards

The 24th Lambda Literary Awards were held on June 4, 2012, to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2011.

Special awards

Category	Winner
Pioneer Award	Armistead Maupin, Kate Millett
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize	Brian Leung, Stacey D'Erasmo

Nominees and winners

Category	Winner	Nominated
Bisexual Fiction	Barbara Browning, The Correspondence Artist	Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, The Two Krishnas J. M. Frey, Triptych Katherine Scott Nelson, Have You Seen Me Alex Sanchez, Boyfriends with Girlfriends
Bisexual Non-Fiction	Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet	Jonathan Alexander and Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Bisexuality and Queer Theory: Intersections, Connections and Challenges Susie Bright, Big Sex Little Death Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature Ven Rey, Surviving Steven
Gay Debut Fiction	Rahul Mehta, Quarantine	Justin Chin, 98 Wounds Michael Graves, Dirty One Garth Greenwell, Mitko Katherine Scott Nelson, Have You Seen Me
Gay Erotica	Dirk Vanden, All Together	Richard Labonté, ed., Best Gay Erotica 2012 Richard Labonté, ed., History’s Passions: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall Steven Haas, ed., George Platt Lynes: The Male Nudes Natty Soltesz, Backwoods
Gay Fiction	Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family	Chris Adrian, The Great Night Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child R. Zamora Linmark, Leche Paul Russell, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
Gay Memoir/Biography	Glen Retief, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood	William E. Jones, Halsted Plays Himself Michael Schiavi, Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo Charles Silverstein, For the Ferryman: A Personal History Ryan Van Meter, If You Knew Then What I Know Now
Gay Mystery	Richard Stevenson, Red White Black and Blue	Jess Faraday, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog David Lennon, Blue’s Bayou Garry Ryan, Malabarista Marshall Thornton, Boystown
Gay Poetry	Tim Dlugos (David Trinidad, ed.), A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos	Paul Legault, The Other Poems Thomas Meyer, Kintsugi Carl Phillips, Double Shadow David Trinidad, Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems
Gay Romance	Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You	Jay Bell, Something Like Summer Mel Bossa, Split Barry Brennessel, Tinseltown Eden Winters, Settling the Score
Lesbian Debut Fiction	Laurie Weeks, Zipper Mouth	Sally Bellerose, The Girls Club Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos Sarah Toshiko Hasu, Megume and the Trees Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation
Lesbian Erotica	Debra Hyde, Story of L	Lesley Gowan, The Collectors Sacchi Green, A Ride to Remember & Other Erotic Tales Sacchi Green, Lesbian Cops: Erotic Investigations
Lesbian Fiction	Farzana Doctor, Six Metres of Pavement	Shannon Cain, The Necessity of Certain Behaviors Kristyn Dunnion, The Dirt Chronicles Hillary Jordan, When She Woke Nina Revoyr, Wingshooters
Lesbian Memoir/Biography	Jeanne Cordova, When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution	Catherine Friend, Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, How to Get a Girl Pregnant Jane Rule, Taking My Life Julie Marie Wade, Small Fires: Essays
Lesbian Mystery	Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou, Dying to Live	A. J. Quinn, Hostage Moon Val McDermid, Trick of the Dark Martha Miller, Retirement Plan
Lesbian Poetry	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Love Cake	Julie R. Enszer, ed., Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry Daphne Gottlieb, 15 Ways to Stay Alive Christina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves Dawn Lundy Martin, Discipline
Lesbian Romance	Kenna White, Taken by Surprise	Rebecca S. Buck, Ghosts of Winter Julie Cannon, Rescue Me Gerri Hill, Storms Robbi McCoy, For Me and My Gal
LGBT Anthology	Michael Hames-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader	Ivan Coyote and Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda and Lisa Tatonetti, Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing Mark Thompson, The Fire in Moonlight: Stories from the Radical Faeries
LGBT Children's/Young Adult	Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy	Cris Beam, I Am J Malinda Lo, Huntress Patrick Ryan, Gemini Bites Lili Wilkinson, PINK
LGBT Drama	Peggy Shaw, A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw	Anton Dudley, Letters to the End of the World Madeleine George, The Zero Hour Jon Marans, The Temperamentals Jonathan Tolins, Secrets of the Trade
LGBT Non-Fiction	Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States	Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality Scott Pasfield, Gay in America: Portraits by Scott Pasfield
LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror	Lee Thomas, The German	J. M. Frey, Triptych Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales: and Other Stories JoSelle Vanderhooft, Steam-powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories L. A. Witt, Static
LGBT Studies	Lisa L. Moore, Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes	Jafari S. Allen, ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
Transgender Fiction	Tristan Taormino, ed., Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica	Cris Beam, I Am J Dana De Young, The Butterfly and the Flame Rafe Posey, The Book of Broken Hymns L. A. Witt, Static
Transgender Non-Fiction	Justin Vivian Bond, Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels	Peter Boag, Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past Megan Rohrer and Zander Keig, eds., Letters For My Brothers: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex